Slavery, Liberalism and the Judge

Published: June 11, 2005

To the Editor:

You report that Janice Rogers Brown believes that the courts have turned away from the founders' emphasis on personal responsibility and that there is a need to invoke limits on government power. How, then, do she and other conservatives reconcile the need for less government interference with their wish to enact laws on personal issues like abortion?

It seems to me that the founders might have preferred personal responsibility instead of government edict to be the standard in such intimate areas.